Christmas Morning 2010

Christmas morning in Hermantown and this is the dialogue I woke up to...

"Santa stopped by!!!" -Tahoe

"Shhh Tahoe... he's gonna be mad and I dont wanna make the

naughty list" - Lily

"Santa! Santa! Santa! Santa! Santa! Santa! Santa! Santa! Santa!" - Tahoe

Santa did come and brought a great stocking for Mia! Enough of pics... lets see what this is!

What a great book!

Thanks Santa!

"Did you say Santa?!"

Christmas Eve Continued 2010

After Christmas Eve service we headed down to Bentlyville to look at the lights... It was a little chilly so we made some great time!

Then home for a little bedtime snack
Too tired to party, Dad and Mia fell alseep...

Oh, and by the way, it was only 7:45pm.

It's ok... you know you have to be asleep for Santa to come!
Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve Morning

Hey mom...Mom... MOM!!!

Did you know it's Christmas Eve!!!!

Wrapping Presents

wrapping presents... sort of

A Madison Christmas

Off to Madison, Minnesota for a fun Christmas weekend!

"You guys do realize that this hat is like 3 times the size of my head"

-- Yes we do!

Gotta love Kubota - so fashion forward!

Greg's one of us now! Go BIG TEN!!!

Supporting SunDrop & Madison at the same time.

Hangin' Out with all the Lindes and the "Linde Pass"...

Jessi's scheming with DeAnne to try and end up with the homemade wine...

No luck again (Thanks Greg)

One of these things is not like the other...

Sarah the Elf helping Santa get the gifts out and ready. Everyone takes a turn sitting on his lap.

"Hey... What's going on...I'm not so sure about this guy"

"Well, this is a little better - I know this lady..."

"Well, if mom thought this was ok..."

"OK, I can do this. Merry Christmas Santa!"

What a great time in Madison!

Attempting the christmas picture

Ok, so maybe we were a little overly-ambitious about getting all 4 of us in a christmas picture and looking nice. We just thought it would be fun to have Mia, Tahoe, Dan, and I in our pic this year...

A few of the participants didn't really agree. We went to Eve and Eric's house for dinner and they played photographer. Their subjects were a little less cooperative.

Tahoe noticed that Mia was given something to chew on and wondered where his treat was...

That's it... Enough of this...

This was the best one of the day... Mia eating an ornament and the dog pouting on the floor. So we tried standing up somewhere else, but Amelia had had enough.

"Seriously Mom, I am done!"
A few days later it was back to the basics... Dan taking the picture with his right arm while we all try to squeeze into the picture. (Oh, and Mia got a candy cane to play with!)

This was a cute one, but half of Dan's head was missing...

Now Mia's head is cut off...

"I don't know about you guys, but this is delicious!"

Dan looks a little frightening....

And the winning picture is.....

You will just have to wait for the christmas card to find out. Have a Merry Christmas and hope your picture taking requires just as much fun and excitement!!!

Mia's first snowday!

" What is that stuff outside?"

"C'mon dad, let's go and check this out!"

Ok, so technically she didn't need to go to school (daycare) today... yeah it is a Saturday, but we officially declared it a snow day. We took Mia out to play in the snow which she loved watching fall down from the sky...

"Brrr... this stuff is cold!!!!"

"Thank you for getting that off my face!"

Tahoe is so helpful in making a snowman...

Actually, it is a snow-woman and her name is Margarite (we live on Lavaque zo her name needed to be zo Frensh... huw,huw,huw... zaid wis my best french accent... wich is zo bad)